The new Rainbow series an easy care, re-blooming perennial that is excellent in the perennial border for color all season long. Summer Wine has large pink to wine colored flowers that stand up on strong stems.
Deeply dissected green foliage forms a tight mound of fine textured foliage in the spring. As the season warms and moves towards June, stems rise above topped with masses of small buds that expand to flattened heads 2-3″ in diameter as they open in early to mid-June. These numerous, soft, lilac-pink blossom heads will are an attractive early summer burst of color for your sunny garden. Like all Yarrow, ‘Pretty Belinda’, despite her delicate looking foliage and pretty bloom, is one tough customer as it will thrive in poor, sandy soils and drought conditions without blinking. After its bloom is finished in late July, cut back ‘Pretty Belinda’ because pruning will stimulate more butterfly attracting bloom as the summer wanes.
Bold color selection with color retention. Makes a more attractive container plant – no gap between flowers and foliage. Ideal for borders, woodland gardens or mass plantings. Excellent cut flowers.
The Achillea ‘Firefly Amethyst’ features bright lavender pink flowers and offers a long summer bloom. Blooms age to light pink. Billowy habit and broad foliage stays sturdy and upright. This perennial is easy to grow in full sun with little maintenance, and is deer resistant. Works well as a border plant, cut or dried flower and mass planting.
This fruity immigrant originally from Holland, is another member of the esteemed Blooms of Bressingham Tutti Fruitty collection. Compact, sturdier and tougher than older selections of Achillea, ‘Pink Grapefruit’ is a flowering powerhouse offering masses of lavender-pink flowers which fade to a soft rose on sturdy stems throughout the summer months. This drought tolerant beauty can be placed in full sun in well-drained soil. Plant it in groups and cut back after its initial bloom to encourage even more ravishing color.
A taller, more robust selection of Yarrow, with long-lasting flowers that look great throughout the season. The blossoms start out as deep salmon pink, becoming a lighter peachy-pink as they mature. Tolerant of a wide range of conditions, these plants are virtually maintenance-free.
Small, glossy, semi-evergreen leaves form the backdrop for waves of small, funnel-shaped white to light pink flowers from late June through frost. Rounded, arching form is distinctive. Form and foliage make it attractive for foundation or for border plantings. Long season of bloom. Attracts butterflies. Semi-evergreen foliage. Drought-tolerant once established.
Sweet Emotion® Abelia is just the shrub to kickstart your heart – and your landscape. It’s the hardiest abelia yet, growing where no abelia could grow before: in chilly USDA zone 4. It’s also the most fragrant of any abelia, with white and pink spring blooms that perfume the air with the scent of jasmine. Add in its elegant habit, attractive seed heads, and orange fall foliage and you have the perfect shrub to showcase your good taste. An unusual addition to shrub or mixed borders, this is a delightful plant to place where its spicy-sweet fragrance can be enjoyed in late May.
This is an amazing summer color machine with colorful groups of purple-pink flowers borne in bunches from June thru frost. Superb burgundy-red fall foliage color.